Wenger thinks that the competition for places in the Arsenal side allows other teams to snap up the Club's surplus talent and build a successful team.

"A route to success is to move around Arsenal and pick the players who don't make it completely," said Wenger. "Then I promise you that you will have a very good team.

"We have very good players who do not all make it but when they drop out you will have a good team.

"At the end of the day I am happy if they have a good life. Their dream, like Sidwell, is to be a professional football player in a top team. If we helped contribute to that in some way then we are happy. As a manager you want to have a positive influence on the life of your football players," he told the club's official web site.